hgreenwood7058

My husband and I have been together from 9 years. We got married in June of 2010. We enjoy spending time with eachother and family. I found out I was pregnant 1/23/11 but unfortunately miscarriedin feb. It is something I don't wish on anyone. On 8/13/11I got a bfp again. Due date was 04/17/12 DS was born 3/31/12. DS weighed 7lb 5oz and 21 inches long at 37w4d via emergency csection.Our 2nd little miracle was Due 4/09/14. DD Was born via csection art 37w6d on 3/25/14 she weight 7lb1oz and 19 inches long.

yay for good appointment. She is almost 2lb heavier than aubrey now. Hopefully now that Aubrey is puking a lot less she will start gaining a lot better. She has already shown a good improvment. Aubrey is about the same height as well. We did gripe water for about 3-4 weeks. I only gave it to her about 20min before I knew she would have an episode. She used to start sreamnig and crying sometime between 7:15-7:30pm and it would last anywhere from 30min-2 hr. If I gave her the gripe water, it would last less time or not happen at all. Took a few doses to get there though. I am glad bf'ing is going well for you as well View Thread

Thanks Beth. Yes its been hard to watch. Carson was a puker too but not to the extent of it coming out his nose or struggling to breath while trying to sleep from the reflux at times like it is with Aubrey. I have an older brother and younger sister who passed away from SIDS so it freaks me out a bit with the struggling to breath. She sleeps next to me in her rock n play and I sleep very lightly. Carson would not latch other than with a shield and even then it was a fight. I didn't have the knowledge or support by professionals like I needed back then either. I ended up pumping exclusively with him for 18 months though so i am happy with that. A lot of the doctors and nurses that I tell that too are amazed at how long I did it for because so many stop relatively quickly if they have to pump. This time it started out similar, Aubrey would latch onto one side but it was a bad latch and caused pain pretty quickly. She would not latch the other side at all. And when my milk came in i was so engorged and swollen that she wouldn't latch to either side. I continued to push through it and I asked for help (both by the special care nurses and specifically asked for a lactation nurse to come see me). They showed me reverse pressure and the difference between comfort sucking and actually eating and that made all the difference in my opinion. She eats great now. So far I am even successfully working full time, pumping twice at work and twice at home and bf'ing her when shes with me without issues. Makes me happy that I am a lot more successful w bf and its so much easier than warming a bm bottle.View Thread

we didn't get milk tested. a lot of the time its not the bm but something mom is eating/drinking, or over supply. In our case she eats fine just pukes and spits up too much causing lack of weight gain. Since starting meds two weeks ago she has gained really good. She gained 6oz the first week and another 5oz this week, so 11oz in two weeks as opposed to 19oz in 6 weeks. She is now in the second percentile. She is a lot less cranky now to. I am still considering switching her ped. We had a much better appointment today and after talking to the med student about not being comfortable with the idea of stopping the meds so soon and abruptly especially with the amount of improvement shes had since being on the meds, he talked with the ped about it and the ped told me it was reasonable to keep her on it until her 4 mo check up and then he would like to cut the dose in half and then stop it after that and see how she does. He is no longer concerned about the lack of weight gain since she gained good the last two visits since starting the meds. So I am a lot more comfortable with this plan. I feel like I was actually heard this time. I let them know about the food diary (we keep record of how often she eats as well as how much she gets in a bm bottle while at the sitters and how it doesn't make a difference how much she eats. she can eat an ounce and puke pretty much all of it up and then eat 3oz and barely spit up). Before this appt I had every intention on switching. I am now debating. I am glad he finally listened though. We don't need to go back until her 4 month appt either way (around 7/25).

Hi Ani. Hope all is continuing to go well. Aubrey is having problems with reflux. We saw a diferent provider for her 2 mo check up on the 28th. She went from the 8.8% down to the 1st percentile so the provider put her on meds for reflux since she is puking so much that she isn't gaining enough weight. She gave us refills and wanted us to come back in a week to make sure she was starting to gain better. (she had only gained 1.5# since birth but did gain almost 3" in height). We had a follow up weight check last thursday and she gained 6oz in 7 days so that was a lot better but she saw her regular ped instead of the other one (which was a locum so her last day was that friday boo). Her ped is talking about already taking her off of the med after this thursday. I am not a fan of the idea because it will have barely been two weeks. I could see doing it for a month and then slowly weaning her off of it and see what happens but not after two weeks especially when she is still in the 1st percentile. He basically just said all babies spit up and have reflux (umm no not all babies have reflux). Usually I am fine with this provider and like that he isn't huge on doing meds for things like colds and I would be okay with not doing the meds if it was mild reflux and she was gaining weight appropriately. But she hasnt been. Both the other dr and the med student both said she would be on it for a little bit,only to have this provider say the complete opposite. I am considering finding another provider if I feel like he isn't listening. He also said that because she isn't struggling to breath and as good color that the reflux is okay.... really you want her to be blue before you do anything.. Which is kind of funny since he was the one that had me go see the lc nurse because she wasn't back to birth weight at two weeks. Even though she had gained a good amount from the time she was discharged from the hospital. So its kind of odd to me. (she was 7#1oz at birth, 8#9oz at her two month check and 8#15oz last thursday. Hoping she gains good this week too. She has another wt check thursday. I think depending on how it goes, I may switch providers)

Otherwise things are going good. I started back to work when Aubrey was 9 weeks old (she will be 11 weeks tomorrow). BF'ing is still going really well. I pump 4x a day and ebf when I am with her. She only gets a bottle when she is at her sitters. I have actually been donating milk to mommies in need. After I donate to a mommy today I will have already donating 1500oz. And still have about 500-600oz in my freezer. Brother loves to love on her. Sometimes too much haha. We adopted two dogs. (DH idea not mine...). I have lost about 28.5lb out of the 50lb I gained. Thats about it.View Thread

completely normal. Most people don't have symptoms till they are closer to 5-6 weeks. The only thing i had was heartburn till about 5ish weeks and then I got bad ms with 2 of my three pregnancies. I have a healthy 2yo and a healthy baby girl who will be 10 weeks tomorrow.View Thread